The Breakaway Group 2010 Beyond Implementation Healthcare Forum: Carladenise Edwards Interview

The Breakaway Group hosted an elite group of healthcare leaders, educators and innovators at the 2010 Healthcare Forum: Beyond Implementation, The New Leadership Agenda for Lasting EMR Adoption. Watch the exclusive interviews with participants at the forum as they discuss critical issues facing the Healthcare community.

Carladenise Armbrister Edwards, Ph.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer for Cal eConnect. She is responsible for managing the $38.8 million federal grant California received under the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act to implement health information exchange services (HIE) and policies. Dr. Edwards has an extensive HIE background. Prior to joining Cal eConnect July 1, 2010, she served as Georgia's Health Information Technology Coordinator in her roles as Chief of Staff and Interim Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Community Health. In Florida she was founding Executive
Director of the South Florida Health Information Initiative and the first Executive Director of Florida's
Governor's Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board under Gov. Jeb Bush.

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